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Edward Sapir

1884 - 1939

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Edward Sapir (; January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States. Sapir was born in German Pomerania, in what is now northern Poland. His family emigrated to the United States of America when he was a child. He studied Germanic linguistics at Columbia, where he came under the influence of Franz Boas, who inspired him to work on Native American languages. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Sapir is the 21st most popular linguist (down from 17th in 2019), the 140th most popular biography from Poland (up from 145th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Linguist.

Edward Sapir is most famous for his work in the field of linguistics. He is credited with coining the term "linguistic relativity" which states that language influences thought.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Edward Sapir ranks 21 out of 214. Before him are Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Jost Gippert, August Schleicher, Georges Dumézil, Kūkai, and Franz Miklosich. After him are Antoine Meillet, Johann Martin Schleyer, Algirdas Julien Greimas, William Jones, Johann Christoph Adelung, and Sibawayh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Edward Sapir ranks 31. Before him are Casimir Funk, Lion Feuchtwanger, Vincent Auriol, Emil Jannings, Rudolf Bultmann, and Gerald Gardner. After him are Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Rajendra Prasad, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Max Beckmann, Panait Istrati, and Otto Rank. Among people deceased in 1939, Edward Sapir ranks 15. Before him are S. P. L. Sørensen, Ghazi of Iraq, Harvey Cushing, Philipp Scheidemann, Werner von Fritsch, and Anton Makarenko. After him are Karl Radek, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Douglas Fairbanks, James Naismith, Matthias Sindelar, and Ferdinand von Lindemann.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Edward Sapir ranks 140 out of 1,694. Before him are Angelus Silesius (1624), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Adolf Anderssen (1818), Alfred Tarski (1901), Albert Sabin (1906), and Olga Tokarczuk (1962). After him are Anna Anderson (1896), Johann Gustav Droysen (1808), Bronisław Komorowski (1952), Alexander Bogdanov (1873), Adolph Menzel (1815), and Witold Gombrowicz (1904).

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Among LINGUISTS In Poland

Among linguists born in Poland, Edward Sapir ranks 1. After him are Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845), Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn (1812), Friedrich von Adelung (1768), and Michael Witzel (1943).

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